Chapter 44 - Observant Conscience

"Ouch!" Christie awoke in her bed screaming. "Get it off of me!"

"What's the matter? Are you ok?" her husband, David replied as he turned on the lights to see what was wrong.

"The spider..get it off! It bit me."

David pulled back the covers and searched through the bedding at Christie's direction.  Soon he began to realize that the spider bite was likely a nightmare as he was unable to find any bite mark on his wife's naked body.

"Are you sure it wasn't a dream?  You look fine... and I mean really fine to me!" David stated with little subtlety to hide his now awakened desire for Christie's sexual attention.

"It was a daddy-long-leg and it was biting me.  I could die." she responded with angst and disgust for David's advances while she was in crisis.

"Honey, daddy-long-legs aren't poisonous and their teeth are too brittle to break human skin.  You have nothing to worry about." David replied with an undertone of amusement in his wife's ignorance while holding the covers open for her to rejoin him.

That's not true. Christie thought to herself.  The poison was real and highly toxic and she was depending on it to realize her plans to ascend her husband to the presidency.